Aristotle On His Predecessors, Being the First book of His Metaphysics;
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p. 244.) 86 ARISTOTLE ON HIS PREDECESSORS. with idle babblers.^ Now, we know for certain that Anaxagoras^ had conceived this idea, but Hermotimus of Clazomenae is alleged to have given still earlier expression to it. Those who framed this conception, then, assumed the cause of Beauty as a principle in things and, at the same time, as being a principle of the kind by which motion is communicated to things. CHAPTER IV. One might even fancy that this point was first investigated by Hesiod, or any ...other of the poets who assumed sexual Love or Desire as a prin- ciple in things — Parmenides,^ for instance, who says, in his description of the formation of the universe: "So Love she devised as earliest-born of all the gods." So Hesiod^ writes, "First of all things was the Abyss {x'^"^), and next broad- ' Cf. Plato's account of the effect produced upon Socrates by the famous statement of Anaxagoras about Mind, Phaedo, 97b ff. Aristotle probably intends an allusion to this passage. ' Anaxagoras, Fr.
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